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TNDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 10:03 AM
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Is furniture patented??
My daughter is an interior design student and designed and built a table that her professor has been after her to market to Ikea. She is clueless about the process. Does she need a patent on the design? Or just pitch it to a company who will develop it? Lawyer needed, I presume?
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 10:05 AM
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1. Lawyer
And yes you should patent it.
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 10:07 AM
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2. She already *has* a copyright on the design.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/

Obtaining a patent is a more involved process.

http://www.uspto.gov/

I don't know of any honest "help to patent" firms out
there. Maybe someone else does.
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 10:12 AM
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3. Rules for applying for "Protected Design" or (D) status.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap13.html#1310

Here's how to go about making it official.
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TNDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 10:37 AM
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4. Thanks, folks.
I have forwarded those websites to her.
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